The Bozeman weekly chronicle., 1887-02-16
Farm Notes.

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your effort to make it warm.
The first prescription for sick horse
or COW is warm blanket.
Try a stubby broom with handle about
1S inches long when getting the mud
from the horses legs.
Whatever else you do, don't follow
the stereotyped advice in poultry books
and papers to make the nests of sitting
hens on the ground-not, at least, before
June.
When you get your garden seeds from
theseedsman land don't wait itanother day
if you have not already sent for them)
put them in baking powder cans to keep
them from the mice.
Break up the shin-bones and feet OF
the beef with an axe and put them in an
iron pan in the stove oven for slow
roasting. A pint or more of genuine
meats foot oil, the best in the world fol-
harness, will be the reward.
In a recent number of Kansas paper
the editor says: In sixty-mile drive
we saw just one crow, one rabbit and one
prairie chicken, and in territory where,
twenty-six years ago last September, We
saw buffalo enough in twenty-four hours
to feed the people of the United States
a year,
Poultry are more apt to suffer from
lack Of water than of food in cold wealth
er. Nothing is more injurious than in
sufficient drink, No matter how well
fed they may be they will grow light
in weight ard egg production will be
postponed until so late that what eggs
they produce will not bring half the
price they would now. Eating snow is
no substitute for drinking as anyone may
find out by trying it. The most intol-
cradle thirst follows the slight relief
from the water which snow or ice forms
when melting:
Oyster shells and bones, with charcoal
and gravel, should be kept where hens
can get all they want. And if you have
one of Wilson's bone mills, save all the
bones you can get and grind them up
for the fowls. If you haven't the mill
better get one; it will save time and tenn.
per, How temper? Oh, you Just try
pounding up raw bone with an old ak
and you will know. Once in while put
some of the touhgest old bones in the
fire, burn them until they crumble easily
and feed them in that form.
The Agricultural Department pub
fishes in its December report, just made
public, some important facts in regard
to the sugar production of the world.
This report is of particular interest at
this moment because it shows what
Europe has done by the aid of bounty
to sugar producers. At the beginning
of this century it would have cost 81 to
produce one pound of sugar from the
beet. To-day beet sugar has actually
supplanted cane sugar, and the official
statistics show that the worlds produc-
tion of beet sugar last year was $3.50, 900
tons, and of cane sugar 2,36S,00O tons.
From 81 to about two cents; from a few
pounds of experimental sugar to more
than half the worlds supply. In the
face af these facts is there man in Con.
gress ignorant enough and egotistic
enough to say that the United States
will never be able to produce the sugar
it consumes? We fear there are a good
many such men. But will the farmers
of the country sustain them in their
ignorance? Let us hope not.
1t should not be forgotten that much
more land will be needed in cultivation
to support 25O,OOO,OOO or 3OO,OoO,O0 of
people than is now TILED. (The child
now born may not be very old man
when the census of the Union shows a
population of 5OO,OO00OO.) Many acres
now practically desert can be reclaimedby
irrigation. That is if government pro-
vides for keeping forest-clad the western
mountains, where the streams take their
rise. But, after all, arabic land must
have higher value than it now COM
mands. 1t is true that in old and thickly
settled countries like England land is
worth less than once it was. 1t is true
that the price of land in our seaboard
states has fallen. This depreciation had
the same cause in both instances-the
vast area of rich unsettled land in the |
west that could be had for the asking
and now bought by railroads within
reach of the worlds markets. But there
is limit to this expansion, and the yery
frontier of fair farm land Is now in sight
Valuable as timber may be in the middle
OF the next century, the best land will |
be needed for other purposes. 1t will
not pay now to devote our best farming |
land to timber culture here, still less will |
it be profitable then. But as the use of |
improved machinery in agriculture in.
creases, the difference in value between
hilly and rocky lands, on the one hand,
and smooth, easily worked lands, on the |
other, increases. But a few years ago
the hilly grazing lands between the
Ridges were worth almost
as much as level bottom lands. But to
day where the profits of agriculture lie
in the possibility of using double cult.
vators and potato-dlggers, where horse
and machine can do more and better
work than four or five men, the rough
lands can not compete with the smooth.
The billy lands and the stony lands are
the place for timber plantations in this
region. If on every farm of 100 acres,
except such as are all of the best and
a portion, say 25 per cent of
The poorest and least accessible and most
difficult to till, should be devoted to
permanent forest and the farm work
now expended on the whole should be
now expended on the whole should be
on the best three-fourths,
who can doubt that the entire product
would be as great as it now is while the
and could be made constantly more
ertile, and at the same time a perman-
INT supply of the wood needed for vari-
'us farm purposes would be provided
timbar to soil i, ,ll:.: